361
HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
362
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.
363
Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
UserZoom empowers your team with sophisticated UX insights to create digital experiences that delight customers and drive business growth.
364
Photon Micro GUI
Update: Renamed the library to avoid the name Clash with QNX Photon.Let me tell you a bit about Elements... From my previous post about Ascend, some folks noticed its existence and actually found the github repository. The repository is rather underwhelming, I thought to myself, devoid of any do
365
366
Redesigning the Windows Logo
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
367
Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
The Edge team added support for respecting the Windows ClearType Tuner values in Chromium directly, resulting in better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows.
368
Affinity Designer: A Love Story
As I found out, Affinity Designer is a worthy rival to Adobe's sacred trinity for designers: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
369
SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111
The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
370
Shooting photos with an IMAX projector lens
What the heck is that huge lens? That Crazy Huge Lens is an IMAX Lens. You will be surprised at the cool street portraits we got with this thing. Take a look at how Jay P rigged this with his Canon EOS R camera and the amazing results. This is Jay P Morgan. Today on
371
372
Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe and how to design a great subscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns.
373
Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
374
Mental models for designers (2019)
At Dropbox, our Brand Guidelines help us infuse everything we make with identity. From icons to illustration, logos to language, this collection is the foundation for how Dropbox looks, feels, and sounds like Dropbox.
375
376
377
Updates to form controls and focus
HTML form controls provide the backbone for much of the web's interactivity. They're easy for developers to use, have built-in accessibilit...
378
Medieval Photoshop
Manipulating and enhancing images may seem something that is particular to the current digital age. The Kattendijke Chronicle, a late fifteenth-century manuscript from the Low Countries, contains fascinating examples of analogue image editing.
379
380
Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
UPDATE (April 2014): After the huge debate this original post created, we decided to refine and build upon the original article, bearing in mind the thoughts of some very insightful feedback left by some commenters. You can find the new article here. UPDATE (March 2018): Some of the comments are not taking into…
381
382
Helsinki Central Library chosen as the best new public library
On Tuesday 27 August Helsinki Central Library Oodi was chosen as the winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award in the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), which is currently underway in Athens. The annually presented Public…
383
The Art of Computer Typography
Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fonts, Typeface As Programme, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Donald E. Knuth and his unexpected contributions to typography. You see, Knuth is a professor and computer scientist well known to pr…
384
Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
385
Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo
If you’ve been on the internet this week, chances are you might have seen a meme or two about the Firefox logo. And listen, that’s great news for us. S
386
387
Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano
Dan Harden's Ravenchord redefines the piano by exposing strings and hammers in a striking spiral, blending aesthetic and acoustic beauty in one.
388
Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2
GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo, allows anyone to create photorealistic masterpieces.
389
Designing Accessible Color Systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
390
Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
From love to disillusionment with Adobe XD. Why I had to jump ship, and what went wrong for Adobe’s design tool.